That's an increase of 18.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $110,355.
Darwin Township has a population of 202.
Since 2001, the Darwin Township budget has grown by 125.6 percent, from $57,950. The township population has fallen 46.6 percent over the same period, from 378.
Salaries accounted for 9.1 percent of township spending in 2017. Darwin Township property taxpayers paid $11,860 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $1,694 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and one part-time employee, and spent $11,396.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.